Travelogues

Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge 2009 by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 2009-05-17 - 2009-06-09

In 2009, after carefull thinking, I decided to make one of my dreams come true: I signed with the Dutch sailing ship Tecla for race 2 of the Tall Ships' Atlantic Challenge 2009, starting in Tenerife on May 17, 2009 with arrival in Bermuda before June 12, 2009. I left the ship in Hamilton on June 15, after 29 days on board, and 2,800 nautical miles. ... (full story) (193 photos)

Three days in Tenerife by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 2009-05-13 - 2009-05-16

Three days in Tenerife, the biggest of the Canary islands, before embarking for my first transatlantic crossing (which will be the next travelogue) ... (full story) (38 photos)

1993, my second Tall Ships' Race by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1993-07-16 - 1993-07-23

My second Tall Ships' Race in 1993, from Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom) to Bergen (Norway), on the Norvegian three-masted bark Statsraad Lehmkuhl. ... (full story) (86 photos)

2008, last TSR of AsgardII /Part II by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 2008-08-12 - 2008-08-22

The last Tall Ships' Race of the Irish sail trainig ship Asgard II, sunk less than three weeks latter.

Part II here covers the Second Race from Bergen, Norway (starting August 12, 2008) to Den Helder, Netherlands (ending August 22, 2008).

Part I covered the Cruise in Company on the west coast of Norway, from Måløy to Bergen. ... (full story) (112 photos)

2008, last TSR of Asgard II /Part I by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 2008-08-03 - 2008-08-11

In two part, the last Tall Ships' Race of the Irish sail training ship Asgard II, who sunk on September 11, 2008, near Belle-Ile en Mer (France). All 25 on board have been saved, but the ship is now lost and will not be salvaged...
The whole travelogue goes from August 3 to August 22, 2008, two legs of the Tall Ships' Race 2008. I have split the gallery in two parts: the Cruise in Company on the west coast of Norway, from Måløy to Bergen, then for the Second Race Bergen-Den Helder (Netherlands). This is Part I: the cruise in company. ... (full story) (113 photos)

Second voyage on Sørlandet by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1992-07-13 - 1992-08-02

My second voyage on the Norvegian fullrigger Sørlandet, in July 1992, from Brest in Brittanny to Kristiansand in Norway, with a final end in the hanseatic city of Hamburg. ... (full story) (75 photos)

Old flying machines by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 2006-06-03 - 2006-06-03

Some views taken at the first of the two June 2006 Air Meetings organized by the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis, an association preserving old planes in flying order near Paris ... (full story) (50 photos)

With Sørlandet in the Baltic States by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1991-08-04 - 1991-08-24

In the summer of 1991, the Norvegian fullrigger Sørlandet made a cruise in the Baltic States, just before the independance: in July, the ship visited Lithuania, then reached Riga, Latvia, where I joined her, for the last stop in Tallinn, Estonia, before going back to Kristiansand in Norway. ... (full story) (103 photos)

Statsraad Lehmkuhl to the Shetlands by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1991-05-13 - 1991-05-20

A short cruise from Bergen to the Shetlands and back with the Norvegian three-masted bark Statsraad Lehmkuhl in May 1991. My first visit to Norway and my first cruise on a Norvegian sailing ship. ... (full story) (58 photos)

Sailing in Ireland with Asgard II by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 2007-04-26 - 2007-05-07

A short cruise from Cork to Limerick on Asgard II, the Irish national sail training ship, between April 26, 2007 and May 7, 2007: Cork, the South coast, the West coast with Bere Island (Bantry Bay), the Skelligs, Dingle, the Blasket islands, Smerwick Harbour, the Shannon and finally Limerick. ... (full story) (113 photos)

Sail Amsterdam 1990 by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1990-08-11 - 1990-08-17

A visit to the tall ships' meeting Sail Amsterdam in August 1990, with the French three-masted bark Belem. ... (full story) (58 photos)

A cruise under the Red flag in 1990 by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1990-07-21 - 1990-08-03

The year 1990 is my first participation in a Tall Ships' Race, at the time called the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race. That year, having only sailed three times on French tall ships, but being more adventurous than I am now, I decided to jump in the unknown and signed as a trainee on the Russian four-masted bark Sedov, who was taking foreign paying trainees on board for the first time... ... (full story) (68 photos)

My 2006 Tall Ships' Race by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 2006-08-09 - 2006-08-21

In 2006, for the 50th anniversary of the Tall Ships' Race, the ships gathered in Saint Malo, for a cruise starting in Torbay to Lisbon (first race), then Cadix, La Coruna (liaison cruises), and finally Antwerp (second race).
I took part in that second race on the French dundee Etoile Molène, who has finished 3rd in B class. ... (full story) (112 photos)

Second voyage with "Belem" by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1989-07-31 - 1989-08-04

My second cruise on the French three-masted bark "Belem", between July 31, 1989 and August 3, 1989 : Lorient, l'Ile d'Yeu, La Rochelle...

Ma seconde croisière sur le trois-mâts barque français "Belem", entre le 31 juillet et le 3 août 1989 : Lorient, l'ile d'Yeu, La Rochelle... ... (full story) (33 photos)

Visit to Musée des Arts et Métiers by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 2006-04-23 - 2006-04-23

This April, spring being really slow to come here in Paris, I decided to go for a small tour of Musée des Arts et Métiers, which I had not visited since the end of its renovation in 2000. I wanted to have a look at the strange machines preserved there... ... (full story) (16 photos)

Four days with La Belle Poule, 1989 by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1989-07-22 - 1989-07-27

A short cruise on board the French Navy schooner La Belle Poule, from Paimpol to Brest, in July 1989.

Une courte croisière à bord de la goélette de l'Ecole Navale La Belle Poule, de Paimpol à Brest, en juillet 1989. ... (full story) (32 photos)

Rouen 1989, Voiles de la Liberté by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1989-07-09 - 1989-07-16

In July 1989, catching with the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, the city of Rouen decided to organize a great tall ships' meeting. It was the first of that size (prior ones such as in Douarnenez, in 1986,having been rather smaller both in the number of ships and the size of them). Thanks to the appeal of the theme backing the gathering, the celebration of French Revolution, 21 tall ships came to Rouen, many of them naval shool ships unfamiliar with French waters... ... (full story) (39 photos)

Belem 1988 : a tall ship experience by Emmanuel LE CLERCQ (15778) 1988-07-30 - 1988-08-04

During the summer of 1988, I decided to test an unusual kind of hollidays, just for once. The French three-masted bark Belem was offering to take paying trainees (since 1986) and I wanted to try that. Thus I put my bag on the ship in Honfleur in the morning on July 30, to disembark in St Malo on August 4. I did not know what to expect and I did not know either it will not be just for once... ... (full story) (35 photos)